Titus 1:10 For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.
What Paul says to Titus in his own day is probably true to some extent of every period. There are many with a rebellious spirit. Such people are full of meaningless talk and deception. These vain-talkers and mind-deceivers have a great deal to say but it is both empty and deceptive. Paul singles out the circumcision group but such rebels can be found in other forms. Like the circumcision group they have a veneer of religion but in truth they are rebels who are empty and insincere hypocrites who oppose the truth and must be resisted. 1 Timothy 1:6 also refers to meaningless talkers and this strand of thought is found throughout the pastoral letters. See 1 Timothy 1:4-6, 6:3-5, 2 Timothy 3:13, 4:4. The faithful minister will expect such rebellion and warn his people against it while avoiding rebellion, empty talk, deceit and all forms of hypocrisy and false religion himself.
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